In Cybernetics
The term "meta-system" (or "metasystem") in cybernetics is synonymous with management system or control system. Stafford Beer, who founded management cybernetics with his Viable System Model, speaks of metasystems that apply metalanguages which are able to find means of making decisions when necessary improvements cannot be made. In computer science this is known as the halting problem. Here metalanguage works in a larger context than the language it describes and has more variety.
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